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IRVING – With Jerry Jones believing Tony Romo will fully recover after undergoing back surgery for the second time in the last eight months, the Cowboys owner believes it’s not necessary for the club to spend an early-round pick on a quarterback in the 2014 NFL Draft in May.
“You’d like to every spring pick up a quarterback,” Jones said on his weekly radio show Friday shortly after Romo’s surgery. “The real issue and maybe your question would be, ‘Would you seriously considering using a significant draft pick for a quarterback?’
“That’s early. That’s way too early to do that with the way things are today with my expectations of Tony’s career, which I think will be for several years to come. It’s too early to be drafting a highly ranked, or if you will, costly quarterback.”
The Cowboys have not drafted a quarterback since it used a fourth-round pick to select Texas A&M alumnus Stephen McGee in 2009. The last time Dallas picked a quarterback in an early round was Quincy Carter out of Georgia in the second round in 2001.
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“You’d like to every spring pick up a quarterback,” Jones said on his weekly radio show Friday shortly after Romo’s surgery. “The real issue and maybe your question would be, ‘Would you seriously considering using a significant draft pick for a quarterback?’
“That’s early. That’s way too early to do that with the way things are today with my expectations of Tony’s career, which I think will be for several years to come. It’s too early to be drafting a highly ranked, or if you will, costly quarterback.”
The Cowboys have not drafted a quarterback since it used a fourth-round pick to select Texas A&M alumnus Stephen McGee in 2009. The last time Dallas picked a quarterback in an early round was Quincy Carter out of Georgia in the second round in 2001.
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